The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PIoUs FAMILY in New York is said to have
converted parrot from profanity and taught
! 1t prayer
THERE is gentleman living on Staten Island
so infatuated with the view that he gets from
his house that he walks up the hill every day
| backward.
CALIFORNIA boasts of her timber and it is
stated that pine boards 50 feet long and feet
wide, without knot or blemish, can readily be
obtained there.
BRASS BAND, whose fourteen members are
all newsboys, exists in New Orleans,and its serv-
| ices are in great demand Il is said to be the
| only newSboyS band in the United States.
! Z. GATCHELL, who owns a tract of mountain
land in Cambria county, Pa, was looking over
| it the other day and came upon cavern in
| winch he found bed of snow and ice three
| feet thick
| NINE Cinnamon caught coming into this coun-
try from British Columbia were refused domi-
Gle in this country, and had to pay $50 per head
| TO the British Columbia government for permiS-
| sion to return there.
A DEAF MUTE was before Petersburg, Va,
court the other day on the charge of burglary,
and the indictment was gravely read to him by
the clerk. Under instruction from the court the
jury returned verdict of not guilty.
THE San Diego, (Cal) San says: about
eighteen months ago Gen. T. r. Crttenden
purchased eighty acres OF land on the mesa
back Of the Florence for $4,000, and three
months since sold it for 100000. 1t is now val
ued at $4,000"
IT is asserted that many thousand tons of
peanuts are imported into the ports Of France
annually for the manufacture of oil, and the
residue. after the oil is expressed, is used for
aduteratng cocoa in the preparation of chOco-
late CONNECTIONS.
A SHUTTER was blown against the head of
John Sims, at Servia, Ind, during a cyclone
early in the week, and though he quickly recov-
cred otherwise from the effects of the blow, he
has lost the power of speech in consequence Of
it. His other faculties, ii is stated, are not in
the least impaired
THE hacknen of Victoria, B. c., subscribed
| 500 toward the celebration of the Queen s
| jubilee at that place but the hack ordinance
was published in the C0}ol,jst and they asserted
that this, by appr.sing visitors of their rights,
| reduced the haciunenS profits, and they re-
| fused TO pay the money subscribed.
| STERN CHITTENDEN, the eccentric New York
| lawyer, who committed suicide at Paradise, Pa,
! 1884 to give Yale College $4,000 if ey-President
| Wooisey would say that he thought Blaine was
| an honest man. Yale never received the money
| and Chittenden voted for Cleveland.
Col. A. LoUDoN SNowDEN, Chief Marshal in
| charge Of the industrial and civic professional
display al Uile celeDfatiO1 OF inc centennial or
the framing of the Federal Constitution, to he
held in Philadelphia on Sept. 10 has sent cir
cular letter to the Governors of all the States,
asking that State committees he appointed to
take charge OF the State interests Oh that ocCa-
sion.
A IABoRER who had been put TO work in the
morning in the Hudson river tunnel at Jersey
City, one day last week, became unconscious
about noon and died four hours later His death
is attributed to what is called the "caisSOn
disease, or the bends" It is thought that he
had been on q spree, or was IN delicate health
and therefore unable to Withstand the effects of
compressed air
LAST Monday Mrs. Ira Richmond of Golden,
Mich, was driving the reaper across the field
when the tongue broke. The horses started on.
and Mrs r. was thrown into the machinery near
the large wheel, and deep cash was cut in her
left leg al the knee. The farm dog. as is his
habit sometimes went to the head of the team
and stopped it, or the wound would have been
more serious and the result probably fatal
YOUNG German carpenter was married to a
pretty Bohemian girl in Omaha, the other day,
after six months courtship, which must have
been conducted entirely in pantomime, as
neither can speak word of the others lam
guage. the services OF interpreter was
needed at the altar. bit the young couple
seemed as happy rs if they had talked sweet
nOthingS into each others ears all their life
time.
seven years, and it is estimated that the average
has been one man killed in the drifts for each
week the mine has been worked-that is, So
times "a total of 1,404 men sacri-
feed in the struggle for the precious
metals in this lode. and these men
are generally strong and brave, or they would
not be there. Fire, gas, dead air, falls, caves
breaking MACHINERY are the varied methods by
which this army e min } avs or sse to the
othe" side, and yet every Irecaut on - taken to
protect them.
AN aims collecting society of Germany, called
the National Fechtschule, founded in 1880 has
taken a wonderful development. The price Of
annual card is fixed at so pfennige mot quite
&c. United States currency, but the fund at
present amounts to Gll,O00 marks, from which
sum thus far three national orphan asylums
have been bult-at Lahr BADEN, Schwabach
Bavaria, and Madgeburg, the seat Of the cen
trail administration being in the last named citv.
Berlin, during the first quarter of the present
year, contributed 100 marks
IT is related of President FELTON,, of Harvarl
University, whose deficiency in the spelling of
English was known, that, coming into the Uni
versity Press one morning to revise some Of his
proot-shcets, he could not help noticing the
many changes that had Leen made from the or
biography of his manuscript in the printed
matter Though somewhat taken eback he
did not-he never dd-lose his good nature;
but looking up to group of compoSitors be
said: Never mind, young man; Lmay be lack
ing III Jile FtrlGcu0Afi DUJ an, nave the aQVan-
tagc over you in Greek
IT is told Of President Potter, of the Union Pa
cihc, that he entered the power house at the
Council Bluffs transfer a few DAYS AFRO in search
of economy. The engineer and assistant were
busily engaged on the latest illustrated papers
but stopped for a moment to cast n cynical
glance at the unknown intruder ''What are
your duties here, my MEM? whispered Dir. Pot
ter, III mellow, QuiVering voice. "Why-Why
we blow the whistle three times day, cheerily
responded the engineer. We can disuenSe
with the whistles aud your services said Mr.
Potter Tho order was promptly Obeyed and
the whistles and power house are now silentand
tcnantcSS.
THE ''savagcs' who are in London with Buffa-
10 Bill's show know the pleasures OF the table. 4
correspondent writing from that city says: l
happened to he dining a few days ago in Ber-
tram's famous Jefferson Room at the Ameri-
can Exhibition, when in came four solemn
looking Indians in all their war paint and
feathers, and quietly occupied q table next to
me. They touched a bell, the waiter appeared
and they ordered turtle soup, dllctcd $, les cut
let's Ia something, aud bottle Of ''Delbeck"
sec-anl got away with the entire taRqiict in
less than half an hour. ] asked Mr. James Der
tram. who at that moment was looking after the
dining department. if the Indians often fed in
this line fashion. He replied: Cutie often
EVERYTHING about the Supreme Court, says
the american Magazine, is impressive and
awc-ins9iring, The sem.circular chamber,
with its stately columns OF notified Potomac